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EDITORIAL CONTACT:
Patrick Riley
Integrated Communications Management
pjriley@icmarcom.com
603.893.6510
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VETTE CORP. ANNOUNCES CUSTOM BRANDED VGA THERMAL SOLUTIONS
FOR AFTERMARKET SUPPLIERSM
COMBINES TECHNICAL EXPERTISE & CUSTOMER SUPPORT IN BRANDED THERMAL SOLUTIONS
Manchester, NH – April 6, 2005, – Vette Corp., a global provider of thermal management solutions,
announces its VGA thermal solutions for OEM electronics manufacturers are now available as
custom branded VGA solutions for aftermarket suppliers. Leveraging its leadership position in
removing heat from today’s most powerful chipsets, Vette works with the aftermarket supplier to
create a custom branded thermal solution bearing the graphics and design to provide not only superior
performance, but significant market differentiation as well. VGA, video capture or video
processing chipsets power computer and popular consumer applications including highperformance
video cards for the gaming industry, video display controllers, video recorders,
and set-top boxes. In higher power applications, VGA’s generate in excess of 100 watts of
potentially damaging heat that must be removed. Unlike OEM suppliers looking to strip
costs from their products, aftermarket suppliers serve consumers willing to pay to increase
the performance of their video application. Often times the thermal solution is the largest
identifiable component to the consumer on an aftermarket video card. In offering a higher
priced component, suppliers also seek to build brand loyalty and product differentiation with
strong graphics.
Aftermarket Suppliers Leverage Engineering, Manufacturing Capabilities
According to Vette Corp. President and CEO George Dannecker, “Vette meets the unique
branding and thermal performance needs of aftermarket suppliers with a combination of
expertise unavailable elsewhere. The performance of our thermal solutions is second to none
and we will engineer cosmetic and structural modifications to the heatsink as well as provide
graphic designers to accommodate the most demanding labeling and graphic treatments in
support of our customers’ branding programs,” Dannecker concluded.
Vette’s application support enables VGA aftermarket suppliers’ early phase design efforts
with access to leading design-engineering personnel, test facilities and complete prototyping
capabilities to ensure rapid design cycles of the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency thermal
solutions. To further enhance aftermarket product applications, Vette supports its thermal solutions
with graphic and mechanical design services, including thermal analysis, mechanical analysis,
thermal testing, and fan life testing.
Vette’s engineers start by optimizing a customer’s cooling solution for thermal, mechanical,
acoustic, and cost constraints. At the same time they are also optimizing the design for
manufacturability and developing tooling to maximize manufacturing efficiency. Then with
design validation and customer approval, Vette’s high-volume, high-quality manufacturing
ramps up, feeding the customers’ global supply chains and meeting their critical delivery
deadlines.
Availability and Pricing
Vette’s heatsinks for OEM and aftermarket VGA’s and related chipsets are currently available
worldwide in standardized configuration, or can be customized to the application’s specific needs.
For more information on prototypes, customization, attachments, or volume pricing, contact Vette
customer service: (603) 792-3460, or visit the company’s website www.vettecorp.com to find the
location nearest to you.
About Vette Corp.
Vette Corp. is a global thermal management solutions provider specializing in solving thermal
challenges for the leading OEMs in both the computer and industrial electronics industries. As
electronic systems increase in functionality and complexity, heat-related factors have a greater
impact on product development cost and time-to-market. Vette maintains a growing IP portfolio;
design and applications engineering in Asia and North America; extensive Asian manufacturing
and a customer list of blue-chip electronics manufacturers.
Vette’s CEO, George Dannecker, was formerly president of Aavid Thermal Technologies. Ron
Borelli, chairman of Vette’s board of directors, served as Aavid Thermal’s CEO and chairman.
Together, Dannecker and Borelli built Aavid Thermal into the world’s largest and most profitable
heat sink company, bringing the venture from $35 million to more than $300 million in revenues
in less than six years. With high-volume, Asian-based heatsink and fan manufacturing coupled
with advanced applications and design teams, Vette Corp. offers their global customers the lowestcost,
highest-quality solutions for their most complex thermal problems. For more information,
visit: www.vettecorp.com.
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